hostages

英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒɪz]

美 [ˈhɑstədʒəz]

n.  人质
hostage的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 人质
  Ahostageis someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands.
  1. It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.
     有两名人质可望在几天后获释。
• PHRASE 被扣作人质
  If someoneis taken hostageoris held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.
  1. He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
     他第一次作为电视记者出国采访时就被扣作人质。
• N-VAR 受限制的人;不由自主的人
  If you say you arehostage tosomething, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.
  1. With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price...
     随着外资的减少，政府将更加受制于起伏不定的国际油价。
  2. Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers.
     葡萄种植兼酿酒者说他们一直都为谷物和大豆种植者的利益所绑架。

双语例句

• Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed
  任何射击线上的人质就都会成为牺牲品。
• He still claims the arms weren't traded for hostages
  他仍然声称军火没有被用来交换人质。
• The gunmen took three hostages.
  持枪歹徒扣押了三名人质。
• The bodies of the hostages were found riddled with bullets.
  在人质的尸体上发现了很多弹孔。
• It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.
  有两名人质可望在几天后获释。
• Jesse Jackson was instrumental in the release of some of the hostages.
  其中一些人质得以获释多亏了杰西·杰克逊。
• The president has said the United States will never pay ransom for the hostages
  总统称美国永远不会为这些人质支付赎金。
• The Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi repeated his call for the release of hostages
  利比亚领导人卡扎菲上校反复呼吁释放人质。
• The terrorists will only release their hostages on certain conditions.
  恐怖分子只有在某些条件下才肯释放人质。
• About 300 French hostages are to be repatriated.
  大约300名法国人质即将被遣送回国。